Organ donation: live Q&A with BMA ethics committee chair

Join the chair of the British Medical Association ethics committee for a live Q&A from 12pm (GMT) on organ donation

Do new measures proposed by the British Medical Association to stop deaths from shortage of organs change the ethical landscape of organ donation? Put your questions to the chair of the ethics committee Dr Tony Calland for a live lunchtime Q&A
guardian.co.uk

Radical changes are needed to boost the number of organ donations, doctors revealed on Monday. The British Medical Association suggests a range of measures – from keeping patients alive solely to donate organs, retrieving hearts from newborn babies or body parts from high-risk donors, to restarting hearts in new patients – all of which throw up ethical and legal questions about how we deal with the dead and dying.

Dr Tony Calland, chair of the BMA medical ethics committee, will be here today from 12pm to 2pm (GMT) to answer your questions and discuss the issues around organ donation. Post your question to Dr Calland in a comment on this thread and he will deal with as many as possible.